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Re: Git tedious verbosity

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Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2020, 04:45 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It says:
>>
>>    All advice.* variables default to true, and you can tell Git that you
>>    do not need help by setting these to false:
>>
>> If there were an option to set that default to 'false' (advice.default
>> maybe?), it'd have answered the demands of the experts, I think.
>>
>> -- Sergey
>
> This was recently discussed.  A quick search in the list archive
> would have found this thread, for example:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqwoa122h1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

Thanks for pointing! Still ability to configure the default looks both simpler and more flexible to me.

-- Sergey
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